A medical receptionist job typically involves greeting patients, scheduling appointments, answering phones, processing patient insurance information and performing medical record-keeping tasks. When writing the objective for your medical receptionist resume, include the experience, skills and knowledge that make you most suitable for this job. Typically, objectives are just a sentence long and make your job goal easy to understand at a glance.

Obtaining Experience

If you are just getting started as a medical receptionist, include your desire to gain experience and develop skills among your resume objectives. Though you may feel nervous about calling attention to your lack of experience, potential employers will note that when reviewing your resume. However, many are willing to train an enthusiastic and well-qualified job candidate. In such a case, use the objective portion of the resume to highlight your training and any employment experience you do have while noting your desire to gain practical experience as a medical receptionist. For example, you could include this as part of your objective: "to utilize my training and office experience to gain practical experience in the medical field."

Patient Service Skills

Most employers desire medical receptionists with excellent patient service skills, so highlight this on your resume. Employers want to know that you will put the patients first and use your excellent communication skills to handle questions, concerns, requests, and scheduling in a pleasant and professional manner. Incorporate your patient service skills as part of your objectives. For example, you may write: "to utilize my patient service skills, medical office experience and administrative skills in an medical receptionist position."

Administrative Work Skills

A company looking for a medical receptionist will want to know you have the administrative work experience to help the office thrive and service its patients well. Your resume should detail the skills you've gained through administrative courses that provide instruction in computer use, keyboarding, office management and medical record keeping. It should also include details of any past work experience that allowed you to use these skills, even if you worked in a non-medical office.

Front Desk Experience

As a medical receptionist, you will act as the face of the office/clinic. You will greet patients in person and on the phone, contributing to the first impression patients develop of the office or clinic. Your performance in this position will lend the medical practice credibility. Include your front-desk experience in your objective, like this: "To use my front-desk experience, administrative expertise and patient service skills in a medical receptionist position that..." If you don't have front-desk experience, you can convey something similar by mentioning experience as an event host or manager, even if the job was not in the medical field.

Considerations

According to Monster.com, you don't always have to include an objective in your resume. Instead, you can include a qualifications summary. This section of your resume allows you to detail the qualifications that make you a good fit for a medical receptionist position. In such a case, the introductory line of your summary should make the job you seek clear, like this: "An experienced receptionist, skilled with front-desk management for busy pediatric medical offices." Follow such an introduction with a clear summary of the qualifications related to the medical receptionist position. Some candidates do, however, include both an objective and a qualification summary on their resumes. You may do well to include both if you are attempting a career change or just getting started in your career. In such a case, your qualifications and work history might not make your immediate job goals clear.

About the Author

Jordan Meyers has been a writer for 13 years, specializing in businesses, educational and health topics. Meyers holds a Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Maryland and once survived writing 500 health product descriptions in just 24 hours.

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